Here’s a recap of our CWS coverage so far for 2015:<\/p>\n
Lets review the CWS group play.\u00a0 The CWS plays just one or two games a day; a far cry from the first weekend, where 64 teams played hundreds of games over the course of a long weekend.\u00a0 So this post has been written in one or two sentence increments for a week and a half…<\/p>\n
My pre-CWS predictions were Florida from the top and LSU from the bottom.\u00a0 Lets see how things turned out.<\/p>\n
In the Left Bracket<\/strong> (UVA, Arkansas, #5 Miami and #4 Florida)<\/p>\n Group winner advancing to the CWS finals<\/span>: UVA<\/p>\n In the Right Bracket<\/strong> (#2 LSU, #7 TCU, #11 Vanderbilt and #14 Cal State-Fullerton)<\/p>\n Group winner advancing to the CWS finals<\/span>: #11 seed Vanderbilt.<\/p>\n CWS finals discussion<\/span>: Games 1,2,3 set for 6\/22-6\/24\/15.\u00a0 Vanderbilt’s pitching staff for the CWS final looks like this:<\/p>\n Meanwhile, UVA’s pitching staff is in trouble.\u00a0 Here’s where they stand:<\/p>\n Sborz meanwhile threw multiple innings in each group win: 3IP on 6\/13, 2IP on 6\/15, and 4ip on 6\/20.\u00a0\u00a0 And all of those were very high leverage innings, with UVA either tied or clinging to a small lead.\u00a0 UVA almost has to consider throwing one of its mid-week starters in Game 2.\u00a0 That would give them Kirby on 4 days rest in the final, to be relieved by Waddell on 3 days rest.\u00a0 You just can’t take a guy who hasn’t thrown in months and then pitch him back to back on the shortest rest of his life.<\/p>\n You have to like the way the CWS lines up for Vanderbilt’s staff.\u00a0 Jones wasn’t exactly overpowering against Arkansas in his start (3 runs in 6ip) and Vanderbilt’s got a better offense.<\/p>\n I’m note quite sure how Vanderbilt slipped to an #11 seed in this tournament, given the talent and leadership on their squad.\u00a0\u00a0 It is worth noting they had no less than nine draftees in the 2015 draft<\/a>; 3 first rounders (1st, 8th and 24th overall), 2 third rounders and a 6th of note.\u00a0 That’s a ton of talent.\u00a0 You have to think they’re the favorites in the final to repeat.<\/p>\n Prediction<\/strong><\/span>: Vanderbilt in 2.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n College CWS tournament references<\/span>:<\/p>\n Here’s a recap of our CWS coverage so far for 2015: College Baseball 2015 Previews and pre-season Rankings Regular Season Wrap up for DC Local College teams Field of 64 announcement CWS Regional Results and Super Regional Pairings 2015 CWS Super-Regionals recap and CWS field Lets review the CWS group play.\u00a0 The CWS plays just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[1768,2844,2792,2814,2464,2494,2532,2346,2644,2848,2540,2486,2847,2811,2822,2843,2534,2845],"class_list":["post-10919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college","category-draft","tag-alec-bettinger","tag-alex-lange","tag-andrew-benintendi","tag-andrew-stevenson","tag-andrew-suarez","tag-brandon-waddell","tag-carson-fulmer","tag-connor-jones","tag-joe-mccarthy","tag-john-kilichowski","tag-josh-sborz","tag-nathan-kirby","tag-philip-pheifer","tag-preston-morrison","tag-rhett-wiseman","tag-thomas-eshelman","tag-walker-buehler","tag-zander-weil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10919"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10992,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10919\/revisions\/10992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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